Johnathan Jacobs, Director, Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics, John Jay College/CUNY
Jonathan Jacobs joined the faculty in February 2011 as Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Institute of Criminal Justice Ethics. Prior to coming to John Jay he taught for over twenty years at Colgate University. He is the author of nine books, editor of three others, and has published over one hundred articles in several areas of philosophy, including Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Medieval Philosophy, Moral Psychology. and Criminal Justice. He has been a Visiting Professor or held fellowships at Oxford, Cambridge, the University of St. Andrews, the University of Edinburgh, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hebrew University, and the Social Philosophy & Policy Center at Bowling Green State University. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Earhart Foundation, and the Littauer Foundation, and he has directed an NEH Summer Seminar for faculty, and was a Fulbright Scholar in 2017 at the University of York, England. He is currently working on issues concerning the aims and justification of punishment in a liberal political order, and the relation between criminal justice and broader conceptions of justice. In much of his work the role of an agent’s states of character in ethical comprehension, reasoning, and motivation is one of his longstanding interests. He is Presidential Scholar in Philosophy at John Jay, and a member of the Doctoral Faculty of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center and a member of the Doctoral Faculty of Criminal Justice at the CUNY Graduate Center.